View of Qasr al-Abd ("Castle of the Servant"), an important structure of the Tobiad estate in today's Iraq al-Amir ("Caverns of the Prince").
The Tobiads were a Jewish dynasty in Ammon with origins possibly rooted in the First Temple Period, both literary and archaeological evidence point to their prominence during the rule of the Ptolemaic dynasty and at the beginning of the Hasmonean period. They were philhellene, supporters of Hellenistic Judaism, in the early years of the 2nd century BCE.
What is known about the Tobiads is a combination of references in the Zenon Papyri, accounts of Josephus (Antiquities of the Jews xii. 160-236) and the Books of Maccabees. These are supplemented by biblical references, the letters from Nimrud, the Lachish letters, and archaeological remains of the Tobiad estate in Iraq al-Amir.
The Tobiads were a Jewish dynasty in Ammon with origins possibly rooted in the First Temple Period, both literary and archaeological evidence point to...
army, which led to the rise of a Hellenized Jewish elite class (e.g. the Tobiads). The wars of Antiochus III brought the region into the Seleucid empire;...
1st and 2nd centuries CE Hyrcanus, the son of Tobias, one of the Jewish Tobiads of the 2nd century BCE Hyrcania (disambiguation) This disambiguation page...
significant leader of the opponents of Nehemiah as recorded in that book. Tobiads, a Jewish or Ammonite faction at the beginning of the Maccabean period...
uncompleted. The Tobiads fought the Arab Nabateans for twenty years until they lost the city to them. After losing Philadelphia, the Tobiad family disappears...
competing contenders for the title. The result was a brief civil war. The Tobiads, a philo-Hellenistic party, succeeded in placing Jason into the powerful...
Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews. Green, p. 501. Ginzberg, Lewis. "The Tobiads and Oniads". Jewish Encyclopedia. Jan Assmann: Martyrium, Gewalt, Unsterblichkeit...
lifestyle. According to historian Victor Tcherikover, the main motive for the Tobiads' Hellenism was economic and political. The Hellenizing Jews built a gymnasium...
from that period is Qasr al-Abd, a Hellenistic palace built by the Jewish Tobiad family, close to the village of Iraq al-Amir. The Nabataeans, nomadic Arabs...
army, which led to the rise of a Hellenized Jewish elite class (e.g. the Tobiads). This period also saw the rise of a Hellenistic Judaism, which first developed...
from the Acra, but also in the earlier countryside struggles against the Tobiad clan of Hellenist-friendly Jews. In general, scholarly opinion is that Hellenistic...
dynast Hyrcanus founded Qasr Al Abd, and was a descendant of the Seleucid Tobiad dynasty of Tobiah, whom Nehemiah mentions in the 5th century BC as an Ammonite...
into their architecture and statuary, as can be seen in such sites as the Tobiad estate in Iraq al-Amir. A significant shift occurred in Jewish artistic...
person as a Hyrcanus described in Josephus's work, a patriarch of the Tobiads. One of his best-known traits was that he was wealthy, having grown rich...
of Job, 2 Enoch, Ezekiel the Tragedian (Exagoge), and the “Tale of the Tobiads.” Many of the Jewish settlers in the Land of Onias were military colonists...
translated into Greek for Hellenistic Jews whose first language is Greek. The Tobiad clan becomes wealthy as tax agents for the Ptolemies. 259 BCE Zenon of Kaunos...
the Tobiad Jews in the southern reaches of Ammon, who had a temple at Iraq al-Amir near Jazer that the Maccabees had visited earlier. The Tobiads generally...
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